San Francisco Earthquake

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Just curious...is the rest of the country paying as much attention to tomorrow''s 100 year anniversary as we are here in No. Cal.?

The History Channel has a GREAT documentary about it...fascinating and chilling.

And here I was thinking I''d never want to live in New Orleans...while I should be wondering why I live here!!!

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[Mara]

i am intrigued by it...the SF chronicle ran something like a 5 piece spread on it i think? i meant to buy it when it started which was last last weekend but it sold out and then i thought oh nevermind. but now i am intrigued. i'll have to check out the history channel.

our local paper for the rosegarden area had pictures from 1906 before the earthquake and it's sooo interesting to see market street and other areas of downtown before it hit and i guess a few things fell over.

 

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Do check it out, Mara...at the very least it will inspire you to stock up on bottled water!

(There's also a documentary on the Discovery Channel, but not as good, IMO)

(Shameless bragging here) My son was interviewed on the radio this weekend regarding the quake/fire! Of course, he was absolutely brilliant...

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[Allisonfaye]

It was on the national news yesterday. Hard to watch with the kiddies around but I find it very interesting too. I lived in LA for 8 years and NOTHING scares me like an earthquake. I used to think they were fun until the Northridge quake hit. My ex bf lived in that apartment building that got flattened before we met. Had he still lived there, he would have been killed because he lived on the floor where everyone died. After seeing the damage it did, I learned to fear them and living on the west coast. (Now I live in Chicago.) I love the bay area and would like to live there some day but I just don''t know if I can live there again.

 

[tawn]

I live in San Diego, and we''ve had a couple little ones in the last few years...enough to scare me a little bit and make me think about it pretty often. But, there hasn''t been a historically major earthquake in SD because apparently we''re far away from the big fault lines.

However, we were evacuated last year for the Tsunami warning when that 7.2 hit off the Nothern Coast, and that was freaky because I live on an island, right on the beach which is only 2 inches above sea level! There was a tsunami here in the early sixties and a few people got killed! And just a little info (which made me pee my pants when I found out) is the fact that there are, on average, about 850 earthquakes a WEEK in CA!! I have an alert set up on my computer that shows any earthquake above a 4 on the Richter Scale, but I get at least 3 a week, so I''m going to have to up it to a 5!

My father-in-law told us that we needed to pack up and move to Maine before CA falls into the ocean...but I read that way more people die as a result of winter-related accidents than in CA earthquakes! It''s all about perspective...I hope!

The 1906 quake was unreal! I''ve read some of the firsthand stories, and they''re so terrifying!

 

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Date: 4/18/2006 3:35:18 PM
Author: tawn

I live on an island, right on the beach which is only 2 inches above sea level!

My father-in-law told us that we needed to pack up and move to Maine

....or at the very least off that island!!

(Just kidding...pretty scary, though. At least with a tsunami you (hopefully) get a warning!)

Earthquakes are indeed terrifying: no warning and nowhere to go when one hits.

I mean, if you can''t trust the earth underneath your feet, what can you trust?

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[tawn]

Date: 4/18/2006 3:51:55 PM
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Date: 4/18/2006 3:35:18 PM
Author: tawn

I live on an island, right on the beach which is only 2 inches above sea level!

My father-in-law told us that we needed to pack up and move to Maine

....or at the very least off that island!!

(Just kidding...pretty scary, though. At least with a tsunami you (hopefully) get a warning!)

Earthquakes are indeed terrifying: no warning and nowhere to go when one hits.

I mean, if you can''t trust the earth underneath your feet, what can you trust?

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I ran into my son''s room...and he woke up and wanted to know why I was shaking him. I was like, "It''s the earth, it''s the earth, it''s not me!". Another time we were in the truck, and I commented on how windy it was, and he looked at me and told me that he thought it was an earthquake...he was right!

The freaky thing about Coronado is that you only have 2 choices to get away...the bridge, or the strand, and neither of them is a good choice!

 

[marvel]

Date: 4/18/2006 3:35:18 PM
Author: tawn
I live in San Diego, and we''ve had a couple little ones in the last few years...enough to scare me a little bit and make me think about it pretty often. But, there hasn''t been a historically major earthquake in SD because apparently we''re far away from the big fault lines.

However, we were evacuated last year for the Tsunami warning when that 7.2 hit off the Nothern Coast, and that was freaky because I live on an island, right on the beach which is only 2 inches above sea level! There was a tsunami here in the early sixties and a few people got killed! And just a little info (which made me pee my pants when I found out) is the fact that there are, on average, about 850 earthquakes a WEEK in CA!! I have an alert set up on my computer that shows any earthquake above a 4 on the Richter Scale, but I get at least 3 a week, so I''m going to have to up it to a 5!

My father-in-law told us that we needed to pack up and move to Maine before CA falls into the ocean...but I read that way more people die as a result of winter-related accidents than in CA earthquakes! It''s all about perspective...I hope!

The 1906 quake was unreal! I''ve read some of the firsthand stories, and they''re so terrifying!

You''re gonna feel a 5 without any alerts! I''m surprised you don''t feel the 4''s. I live in SoCal too, so I''m familiar with the shakers.

 

[tawn]

Date: 4/18/2006 7:11:54 PM
Author: marvel

Date: 4/18/2006 3:35:18 PM
Author: tawn
I live in San Diego, and we''ve had a couple little ones in the last few years...enough to scare me a little bit and make me think about it pretty often. But, there hasn''t been a historically major earthquake in SD because apparently we''re far away from the big fault lines.

However, we were evacuated last year for the Tsunami warning when that 7.2 hit off the Nothern Coast, and that was freaky because I live on an island, right on the beach which is only 2 inches above sea level! There was a tsunami here in the early sixties and a few people got killed! And just a little info (which made me pee my pants when I found out) is the fact that there are, on average, about 850 earthquakes a WEEK in CA!! I have an alert set up on my computer that shows any earthquake above a 4 on the Richter Scale, but I get at least 3 a week, so I''m going to have to up it to a 5!

My father-in-law told us that we needed to pack up and move to Maine before CA falls into the ocean...but I read that way more people die as a result of winter-related accidents than in CA earthquakes! It''s all about perspective...I hope!

The 1906 quake was unreal! I''ve read some of the firsthand stories, and they''re so terrifying!

You''re gonna feel a 5 without any alerts! I''m surprised you don''t feel the 4''s. I live in SoCal too, so I''m familiar with the shakers.

I''ve felt a couple of 4''s here in SD, but I get too many emails reporting the ones that are out in San Simeon area etc...! The 5.2 was a little scary because it made the whole house rattle lightly for about 45 seconds. Here is the recent earthquake map which is looks really quiet now compared to when I found the site last year!? Hmmmmm, is that good or bad?

CA Earthquake Map

 

[Rank Amateur]

Did I hear correctly that there were (just) 3500 deaths in 1906?

If a major quake hits in a big city there will be many more deaths this time. Look at the structural failures from the Northridge quake. Much of what the structural engineers thought they knew turned out to be incorrect. A big quake in a big city will be devastating.

It is coming eventually but the damage depends on where and how big.